| Description |
335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-319) and index. |
| Contents |
What the nation was up against -- The farewell -- The threats: geographical, political, international -- Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism -- The apotheosis of George Washington -- Washington dies -- The nation's uncertain future -- Civic texts: creating a new future -- Partisanship -- Nationalism and religion -- Resignation, gratitude, and consent -- Washington's family: slavery and the nation -- George's death and Martha's predicament -- Slavery and the national family -- Washington as abolitionist -- Washington and paternalism -- Toward a consenting republic? -- 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel -- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator" -- Weems and antipartisanship -- Weem's Washington: a primer -- An "ad captandum" book -- Discriminating the "populi" -- Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts -- Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American -- Schoolbooks as civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature -- From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual -- Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves -- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy -- Slavery and the American individual -- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy -- Fit to be free -- The extended legacy of civic texts -- American nationalism, the living and the dead. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815.
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Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Influence.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Textbooks -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Textbooks -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
1594200920 |
| Standard No. |
9781594200922 |
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